On the one hand, the Pina Bausch Foundation presents her work to the public in the form of progress reports and the scholarly volume "INHERITING DANCE. An Invitation from Pina". On the other, the Foundation joins forces with partners to publish on Pina Bausch’s artistic work.
How can dance be passed on? And how is an inheritor supposed to handle such a precious treasure that is not so easy to store or exhibit? Dance might be the most elusive of art forms - and can only be preserved by continually bringing it back to life on stage. But how can this be possible with the creator not being present any longer to bring it to life? What does it take, what can and should be tried to conserve the art, and what degree of alteration can be allowed? It was questions like these that the Pina Bausch Foundation had to face when it came to accepting a major inheritance and carrying it into the future.
The Book INHERITING DANCE. An Invitation from Pina provides a detailed description and reflection on the archiving project An invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future and the early development years of the Pina Bausch Archives 2010 to 2013. The main concern is the question for adequate ways to archive Pina Bausch’s oeuvre in the first place, what strategies of transmission are suitable, and how the Archives’ principles of being a “living place” and a centre for constant knowledge generation can be filled with practical content. Also, INHERITING DANCE provides fundamental insight into the practical work of the Pina Bausch Foundation and its objective to create an archive as a place for transformation, exchange, creation and artistic practice: A place for dancers, artists, academics and novices - for everybody who wants to look into the work of Pina Bausch.
INHERITING DANCE. An invitation from Pina
Marc Wagenbach, Pina Bausch Foundation (Eds.)
Final publication of the project An Invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future by the Pina Bausch Foundation (2010–2013).
The authors: Salomon Bausch, Stephan Brinkmann, Royd Climenhaga, Katharina Kelter, Gabriele Klein, Sharon Lehner, Bernhard Thull and Marc Wagenbach
transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, 192 pages, softbound, € 29,99 (in German and English).
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2771-8 (German)
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2785-5 (English)
Fourty years ago – at the outset of the 1973/74 season – Pina Bausch started her tenure as head of ballet at Wuppertal theatre. Film maker and photographer KH. W. Steckelings was a witness from the very beginnings. Pina Bausch had invited him to accompany her dancers during rehearsals and breaks with his camera. A task Steckelings performed in a both inconspiuous and emphatic manner. Obviously, the dancers rarely took notice: none of his photographs display a quality of being posed or mannered. They convey an illusion of being part of the artistic process in these early years when Pina Bausch an her company developed new forms of expression in dance.
Pina Bausch backstage
Edited by Stefan Koldehoff in cooperation with the Pina Bausch Foundation
With a preface by Salomon Bausch and an essay by Nora and Stefan Koldehoff
Published by Nimbus publishers, CH-Wädenswil / Zürichsee
Texts written in German and English
ISBN 978-3-907142-99-8
While shooting outdoor scenes of her film Die Klage der Kaiserin (The Lament of the Empress) Pina bausch is informed that the dancer of the victim in Le Sacre du printemps has fallen ill. The performance is scheduled for the next night. Pina Bausch cancels the shooting and immediately sets a recasting rehearsal to prepare Kyomi Ichida for the role. Some members of the film crew join them and film the ongoing rehearsal.
Probe Sacre. DVD and book
Trilingual edition (French, German, and English)
Texts by Pina Bausch and Kyomi Ichida (original dialogues), and Norbert Servos
Photos: film stills selected by Herbert Rach
DVD: Format: 4:3, NTSC, colour; sound: PCM Stereo; runtime: 45:55 min.
L’Arche Éditeur, Paris in cooperation with the Pina Bausch Foundation
ISBN: 978-2-85181-798-3
Walzer (Waltz) is an excerpt of Pina Bausch’s piece of the same name. It was premiered in the Theater Carré, Amsterdam in June, 1982; filming took place in fall of the same year at Wuppertal Schauspielhaus. When the Broadcasting Services of Northern Germany expressed interest in the work in 1986, Pina Bausch screened and cut the material.
Walzer – Ein Stück von Pina Bausch. DVD and book
Trilingual edition (French, German, and English)
Texts: original dialogues
Photos: film stills selected by Reinhard Kiehl
DVD: Format: 4:3, NTSC, colour; sound: PCM Stereo;
Subtitles in French, German, and English; runtime: 55:32 min.
L’Arche Éditeur, Paris in cooperation with the Pina Bausch Foundation
ISBN: 978-2-85181-787-7
Subsequent to the first progress report individual projects are introduced which are related to the archival project „An Invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future“. Furthermore, this report describes developmental steps of the archive.
Texts written in German and English.
ARBEITSBERICHT/PROGRESS REPORT 2012
The first progress report gives detailed insight in the Pina Bausch Foundations’s work performed in context of the archiving project „An Invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future“.
Texts written in German and English.